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Board to vote on tuition increases this week

Students taking initiative to alleviate suffering on the streets

Letter: UBC has abandoned women

Swimming wins men’s and women’s Canada West titles

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UBC stuns Montreal 26-23 to capture its first national championship since 1997.

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Daria Danylchuk brings gifted young students to UBC Leo Soh Contributor

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Educator, administrator and community leader Daria Danylchuk mentors the youngest of UBC students as the co-founder and program coordinator at the University Transition Program.

In 1969, Danylchuk found herself at a crossroads. Having completed a Bachelor’s degree in honours English at the University of Saskatchewan, she became disconcerted with the prospect of graduate school.

“After I had been in university for five years, I said to myself, ‘There must be more to life than this,’” she explained. “So I said to myself, ‘I need to get a job.’ At that time, you could get a [Bachelor’s] degree in education in just over a year — so I did that and I got started in my first job.”

Danylchuk began teaching at the high school level in Saskatoon and discovered a passion for gifted education. She often found herself wanting to teach material beyond the students’ academic grade level.

She decided to pursue a Master’s degree with a focus on gifted education at the University of Connecticut and later a Doctorate degree at the University of British Columbia. This began Danylchuk’s involvement with the Vancouver School Board as a District Teacher in Gifted Education.

“At first, the district didn’t have any [gifted] programs. There was no plan, no opportunities for really advanced stuff,” she said.

But with the addition of Danylchuk’s expertise, the school district created many new opportunities — such as multiage clutter classes (MACC) — for students with unique talents and abilities.

Her work with the school district took a new direction when Danylchuk was alerted of two boys wanting to radically accelerate their education.

“One of the boys came to my attention at the age of 10,” explained Danylchuk. “He was really interested in physics, but he was still in grade

five. We had to work to create pathways for these two boys to find their way to an accelerated place.

[That] boy graduated at the age of 13 and came to UBC where he was supported by the Associate Dean of Science. He’s now completed his MD and his PhD and gone on to do great things.”

Despite their success, Danylchuk was concerned about the boys who graduated without a high school cohort and entered university in their early teens. Danylchuk was inspired by the transition school at the University of Washington where a system was in place for early entrance to the university.

A committee of UBC professors, educators from the Vancouver School District and parent representatives therefore created a similar model at UBC. The implementation of the model proved challenging. UBC’s own transition school was set to open in the September of 1993, but as of May, Danylchuk had yet to recruit students or secure funding. “I went out looking for possible students. We were interviewing into August,” she recalled.

Ultimately, the program began as planned.

“We started with seven kids [in] a [portable] at University Hill Secondary School,” said Danylchuk “It was a patchwork quilt of dropping kids into different classes [according to their level]. By the second year, we had 22 kids so it began to grow.”

However, Danylchuk knew that this was not a sustainable model and set out to expand it.

“It became clear that this program had a very specific goal. We wanted to have, for the students, an identity not as a high school student, but as a pre-university student,” she explained.

What was proposed was a move to the Point Grey campus itself.

With this came a need for increased funding. Danylchuk applied for and gained Provincial Resource Program status, which provides designated funding for statistically rare student populations.

“This meant we could actually hire teachers for the program,” said Danylchuk. “By 1998, we were able to move out to the campus and had staff. That’s when the program began to shape itself.”

Today, the University Transition Program houses 40 students and is nestled between Koerner Library and West Mall.

The majority of students enter from grade seven. After two years of study, they complete the requirements of high school graduation. Students as young as 13 apply for university admission.

“In the program, work is the norm. There’s no running away, no easy way. It’s like tempering steel — you burn off the dross,” Danylchuk said.“[Program graduates] are remarkable young people that have emerged and are taking hold of their lives. They are disciplined and have overcome things like procrastination.”

Perhaps thanks to its rigor, the program’s graduates have exhibited academic success during their times at UBC and many have gone on to forge careers in fields such as medicine and finance. Standouts among recent graduates include Cheng Xie, who received the Schulich Leader Scholarship — an award for undergraduates in science, technology, engineering or math programs — at age 15, and Rex Chen, who published in the Harvard Journal of Emerging Investigators at age 14.

Danylchuk believes the program should be replicated by other leading institutions. “[The program is] reminding everybody that what we think are standards are maybe not quite as stuck in cement than we previously would have thought,” she said.

“Education is so important to many of the complex problems the world is facing. We should remember that youth is our greatest resource — every university should have an opportunity created for the very young, bright students.” U

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EDITORS EMMA PARTRIDGE + MOIRA WARBURTON

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Faced with a human rights complaint, UBC responds to cases of sexual assault Emma Partridge News Editor

Once more in an already-controversy laden year, all eyes are on UBC as CBC releases their full investigation into the way the administration handled multiple instances of sexual misconduct by the same PhD student, Dmitry Mordvinov.

In the wake of CBC’s reporting, interim President Martha Piper issued an apology to the women who Mordvinov assaulted. Piper noted, “[I appreciate] the light the women have shone on this issue and I want to make a pledge. We will begin a discussion with our students, faculty and staff on a separate sexual assault policy.”

Despite Piper’s statement, Glynnis Kirchmeier — one of the women who made a report to UBC regarding the inappropriate behaviour directed at her by Mordvinov — announced in a press conference that she would be filing a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal against the university for their handling of the reported incident.

According to Kirchmeier, she brought concerns about Mordvinov to the history department in January of 2014 for behaviours she had witnessed as far back as 2011. Yet, Mordvinov was only expelled this month.

“UBC has a legal duty to provide a harassment-free environment.

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One scandal after another has marred UBC’s cenntenial year.

The Supreme Court of Canada has stated that there’s a legal duty to warn potential victims, and UBC has a legal duty to report their knowledge to the police,” said Kirchmeier at the press conference.

“In my well-documented experience of 22 months of speaking to 10 employees from four offices within the university, UBC administrators utterly ignored these ethical and legal duties.”

According to CBC, at least two accusations surfaced in 2014 against Mordvinov. It is unclear whether one of these was referenced by Kirchmeier in the press conference.

Although Piper remained adamant in the last meeting of the UBC Senate that sexual assault will not be tolerated on this campus, a statement issued by UBC spokesperson Susan Danard also

noted “we can do better and we will do better.”

“While the university had to wait until it had the necessary facts to take action, I acknowledge that the process took too long,” wrote Piper in a statement on the university’s website, which was then circulated in a broadcast email to the entire UBC community the night that the documentary aired.

Despite these admissions, Kimberley Beck, legal counsel at the Office of the University Counsel, said that she believes in UBC’s current process of reporting sexual assault.

“I think the people who go through our process are generally satisfied with the care and attention ... that the committee gives to them,” said Beck, speaking of the nonacademic misconduct committee that deals with reports of sexual

assault when they’ve been made internally. The process uses a structure of investigating in which both victim and perpetrator are asked questions by the committee.

The committee is made up of a group of selected students.

According to Ashley Bentley of the AMS’s Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC), many survivors may not wish to report in this way because it involves disclosure to a group of students.

Bentley also noted that a lack of a single policy on sexual assault can be problematic. Currently, the university relies on Policy 3 which relates to harassment and discrimination. According to a board document, the office received 273 files and only six were referred for formal investigation under Policy 3 over the last 18 months.

In addition, certain survivors have said they felt actively silenced by the university.

“I have been asked to share the experience of one current student not in the Faculty of Arts. She told me that she reported an abusive colleague to the equity office a year and a half ago, and they gave her a … ‘gag-order’ — her words,” said Kirchmeier.

As a result of the slow process it to expel Mordvinov, Kirchmeier will file a complaint with the BC Humans Rights Tribunal and UBC will have to face the consequences.

“Now the lights are turned on and the university is going to be tried in the court of public opinion.

Then it is going to answer to the BC Human Rights Tribunal and I suspect it will be tried in civil court as well. UBC did this to itself,” said Kirchmeier.

When asked where exactly Beck felt that the process of reporting and handling a sexual assault was weak, she spoke mainly of getting information to students about the options they have available to them after an assault.

“I think a place we could do better is getting information out to our community — particularly our students — about what’s out there for them, about the places they can go,” said Beck. “What we want to do is make sure that we are communicating clearly to our students what their resources are.”

Some have been calling for a policy review following the complaints against Mordvinov.

When asked whether UBC’s process for handling sexual assault will change in the future after these concerns about UBC’s reporting process surfaced, Chad Hyson, associate director of student conduct and safety, said “we’re constantly taking in the feedback that we’ve received regarding our processes as any organization does.”

“We learn every time we have a hearing,” said Hyson. U

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BoG approves tuition increase proposal, will vote this week

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Interim President Martha Piper and Chancellor Lindsay Gordon vote on the proposal.

Moira Warburton News Editor

The Board of Governors has voted to approve the proposal for international student tuition increases with several conditions.

The Board will insist on a clear outline of how the administration’s proposed 2.5 per cent allocation of the revenue from tuition going towards diversity will be spent.

The Board’s Finance and Property Committee also brought up issues with the administration’s benchmarking process and will advise the Board to suggest the administration revisit it in cooperation with students. This was a win for the AMS who, in their presentation to Board today, pointed to large

irregularities in the university’s benchmarking process such as inconsistent methodologies used to benchmark.

“There’s a degree of uncertainty and I’m going to have to call upon the students and the administration to reach an agreement … prior to the [next] Board meeting,” said Greg Peet, chair of the finance committee.

Several conditions were suggested by the committee relating to how the administration should move forward with benchmarking. The first is to cut $2,000 from the proposed tuition fees for the four major programs — arts, science, commerce and applied science.

Peet, who had serious concerns about how many of these programs were

benchmarked, said the administration should “[do] the right thing” in terms of benchmarking for Master’s programs and be “accommodating to students” on degree programs created in the last two years.

“This is the first time the Board of Governors has substantially listened to students,” said Jenna Omassi, AMS VP Academic and University Affairs. “Have all our concerns been met? No. But this is a step the right direction and this goes to show that when you come up with a rational data-based argument — along with student unrest and support — you can be successful.”

The final condition was clearer terms of reference for how the university’s Strategic Fund, which under the current allocation model will receive over 60 per

cent of the revenue gained from tuition increases, will be governed and managed.

Peet expressed disappointment at the unresolved disagreements between students and the administration on the tuition proposal.

“I had a dream that … it would be a logical fact-based discussion and that students — while opposing tuition as a principle — and the administration could get a lot closer. So I’m a little disappointed that we have as little agreement as we have so far,” said Peet. “It is a big change in policy, so perhaps the reality is it’s very hard to get it exactly right the first time when the movements are so large.”

Julie Van de Valk and Veronica Knott — the two UBC Vancouver student representatives on Board

— voted against the approval due to lingering concerns about the proposed increases. The UBC Okanagan students’ representative, Jeff Krupa, abstained.

“I’m an engineer,” said Knott.

“This should be factual. We shouldn’t have these massive discrepancies between the benchmarking numbers…. We need to make the whole thing conditional to move forward until we have a better proposal.”

“When you have an imperfect situation, you find some sort of solution that makes no one happy or everyone equally unhappy,” said Peet of the conditions put forward today. “Listening to the sensibilities around the board discussion, we’ve listened to the students [and] we’ve listened to the executive.” U

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SENATE //

Creation of a fall reading break a definite possibilty Aidan Qualizza Staff Writer

The AMS executive has been pushing for a fall reading break, taking into consideration mental health and well-being. The exec has been seeing largely positive feedback from faculty, staff and students about this possibility.

“As post-secondary institutions continue addressing mental health concerns in education, university officials seek to evaluate ways in which administrative changes may impact student stress in the most positive way,” wrote Lina Castro, the AMS Mental Health and Well-Being Commissioner, in a draft copy of the Reading Break Proposal that will be taken to the UBC senate.

The exec hopes to convince senate and faculty that the reading break would be beneficial.

The proposal will be coupled with other changes in scheduling and course delivery that are intended to improve well-being. These changes include having a notation for dropping a course due to extenuating circumstances and more defined

requirements for syllabi. The AMS exec plans on bringing all of these issues to senate as a package.

“I think the conversation is much more broad, which is good because … ultimately it means we won’t be getting one and not the other,” said Jenna Omassi, VP academic and university affairs.“We will be getting what we ask for ... but it means that it will take a bit longer, because it is going to be a longer conversation.”

The exec acknowledges that students are in need of this break, but this a complicated process that not only involves the students on the UBC Vancouver campus, but also the staff, students and faculty of UBCO. “To be perfectly honest, students that are looking for something to be happening right now — it’s not happening. The academic side of this institution moves at snail pace,” said Omassi.

“I predict we will see a fall reading break in 2017.”

Even though this process is going to be a long one, Castro still says that she feels as though they are moving fast.

“No one has been pushing back ... everyone I have talked to

So far, the AMS has been getting mostly positive feedback about a reading break in the fall.

has been really receptive to all of these ideas,” she said. “It seems like a lot of people have been talking about it, but not sure what to do in their position.”

A group of students in the Faculty of Applied Science are in the beginning of creating quantitative data to support the AMS initiative, through a survey and a petition that they hope will show how important the

reading break is for students and potentially faculty.

“We don’t have a moment to appreciate how good of a job [we] are doing … and appreciate how crazy the stuff is [that] you are learning about. I am actually hating my degree right now because I don’t have time to sleep,” said Amanda Santoro, one of the second-year students, in the Faculty of Applied Science who is creating the petition.

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“I feel like if we all had a minute to take a breath, we could appreciate life a little bit more.”

The petition will mix quantitative and qualitative questioning that will allow the university to develop a strategic outlook on the potential reading break and clearly understand student perspectives when making decisions surrounding university scheduling. U

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“Living lab” housing complex to be constructed

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The research for the living lab complex will be wide-ranging.

Emma Partidge News Editor

The question of where and how to go about building faculty staff housing is asked constantly at UBC. The university plans to address this in part by constructing a “living lab” housing complex in the University Boulevard area.

A living lab building is one in which the behaviour and operations of the building are studied by researchers. According to John Metras, managing director of UBC Infrastructure and Development, the idea for creating housing that will act as a living lab arose from the desire to have a residential version of the Centre for Interactive Research and Sustainability building.

The first of this kind of project on campus was the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility. This building “provide[s] heat for campus buildings and it’s also generating electricity … we’ve got at least 12 active research projects going on in the Bioenergy Facility right now,” said Metras.

The housing slated to go up on the land currently occupied by the DH Copp building – just west of Shoppers Drug Mart on University Boulevard – will house faculty and staff and is to be rented at a 25 per cent discount off of market price according to Michael White, associate VP of campus and

community planning.

The research will be wideranging and will study such areas as environment, sustainability, building performance and behaviour.

However, the specifics of the research that will be carried out are still in the works.

“We’re in the process right now of working with the VP Research office and a number of faculty members to develop a research plan for the facility. It’s under development at this point,” said Metras. White said both the VP Research and certain faculty members have relatively concrete ideas right now that will be further narrowed and integrated.

The residents of the building can be part of the research initiative if they choose to be. However, ethical standards in research demand that participants in a study have the option to opt-out — no matter the time range.

“Some studies may only take a minute or two. What is necessary is the opportunity to withdraw participation,” said Laurel Evans, director of research ethics at UBC. “A lifetime study would require periodic revisiting of the individual’s consent.”

The fact that residents will necessarily have the option to stop participating in the study has raised some issues with members of the UBC community who are already not on board with the development.

“What if years and years down the line, all residents decide they no longer want to be a part of it and it no longer actually is a living lab, but housing is already built there?” asked Jenna Omassi, AMS VP Academic.

“It’s setting quite a dangerous precedent for the future.”

Metras responded that, while such a situation would be unfortunate, it wouldn’t stop the building’s research capacity.

“There are studies that potentially involve building technologies. For instance, that could be carrying on or just monitoring the ongoing performance of the building from an energy perspective,” he said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to involve the residents, but we’re hopeful studies can be undertaken that involve the residents.”

This isn’t the only concern that students have raised. According to Omassi, even though the building will be used for an academic purpose, “the AMS and GSS throughout the consultation ... have adamantly said time and time

again that it is not justifiable to have housing there.”

According to Omassi, the danger is that UBC is using academic land for housing “that is justified as academic by a loophole.” By classifying the housing as a research facility, the university is able to build non-student housing on academic land.

Omassi’s predecessor, Anne Kessler, was in the AMS VP University Affairs position during consultation for the DH Copp building and shares concerns over the establishment of housing on academic land.

“There is absolutely a need to be thinking about affordability for faculty and staff and to have housing on campus … I’m not against that,” said Kessler. “[But] it’s kind of going under the table and [they’re] not being explicit about what they’re doing and not fitting within the definitions that they’ve set out.”

Neal Yonson, who runs the investigative blog UBC Insiders, also felt that the definition of a

“living lab” may be being used to loosely. Even if a better, more comprehensive definition was to be developed, then “the way [Yonson sees] that playing out is they redefine [the rules] to conform to the project that they’re building … the whole thing is an exercise in changing the rules.”

These issues aside, the housing will come to fruition. White mentioned that a part of the reason for such a development is that three other sites – where Gage South, The Nest and the Alumni Centre now are – were intended for faculty staff housing, but were lost to those projects.

“We’re still playing catch up to the housing that we actually lost in the first place in that neighbourhood,” said White.

“Those three sites were converted and were previously identified for different types of housing. We’re still playing a game of catch up because … the idea here is to have a mix of uses and housing is a key part of a vibrant area.” U

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EDITOR OLIVIA LAW

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015

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Collecting blankets, warm clothing for Vancouver’s homeless

Bradley and George say they feel safer on the streets than in shelters.

Sivan Spector Staff Writer

UBC fourth-year Fearghus Arnold is organizing a blanket drive that will collect warm clothes and blankets for homeless individuals in Vancouver. The drive will accept socks, sweaters, coats, gloves, hats, blankets, sleeping bags, shoes, scarves, formal clothes and any warm items in good condition. Collection bins will be placed in the Nest, Henry Angus Building, Robert F. Osborne Centre, Jack Bell Building and H.R. Macmillan Building from November 29 until December 5.

The clothes will be donated to The Door is Open — an organization on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver that gives away free clothing and runs a weekly soup kitchen for both homeless and low-income individuals. Arnold, who is working towards a major in

finance, has been volunteering at the soup kitchen at The Door is Open since he started attending UBC. He was inspired by the charity work he and his mother did in Campbell River where he grew up.

Arnold is aiming to connect an organization “that is giving out warm clothing and UBC that ... has the ability to donate.” As the winter approaches, the situation on the streets grows more difficult for the 1,746 homeless individuals in Metro Vancouver because of the cold.

Although Metro Vancouver has more than a dozen openaccess shelters and several more specifically for youth and women that provide food, shelter and other amenities, many say they choose to stay on the streets because the shelters have bed bugs, violence, stealing and drugriddled environments. They find the streets to be safer.

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Tom, however, who has been homeless in Vancouver for about a year, said that the shelters provide good support. Despite his difficult condition, he feels he has enough to get by. He even said he has enough warm clothes.

Bradley and George, who usually sit on Granville street and have stayed drug-free their whole lives, say that going to the shelters makes them feel unsafe due to an environment of substance abuse.

“It’s better to live on the streets than in a shelter because you get raked, punched and robbed,” said George, referring to an experience he once had.

George, who suffers from PTSD from events in his childhood, becomes triggered when he goes into an environment of substance abuse.

Although both say it’s cold on the streets, they would not go to East Hastings to pick up clothes because it is a bad area. George expressed that he is often in a state of fear and

doesn’t “have friends, only people [he] respects.” They both wish that there could be more outreach efforts beyond just donating to stationary organizations.

Pete, who was lying on a bed of newspapers on Granville across from Pacific Centre, said he has trouble getting up. Shelters, as well as stationary organizations, are not a viable option for him. He suffers from learning disabilities and Grand Mal Seizures — the medicine for which he cannot afford and has difficulty acquiring even when he has collected enough change. He fears that, if even if he were able to go, his few belongings will be stolen because he physically can’t travel anywhere “There is an unfortunate stigma that [homeless individuals] have made a mistake ... and that these mistakes have propelled them into a spot that make them unpredictable or dangerous,” said Arnold. “That’s almost always not the case.”

In fact, according to The Vancouver Homeless Count, 74 per cent of homeless individuals suffer from some kind of medical condition, including mental health issues, disabilities and other illnesses.

Fifty-eight per cent report substance abuse, which in many cases is a result of underlying psychological and socioeconomic factors. Many, like George, have had rough childhoods without opportunities to escape their situation.

“Their situation is above and beyond them ... they started at the bottom ... they have been in this spot for a long time,” said Arnold. In Pete’s case, the metaphor is literal.

Pete said he would like a blanket to keep warm, revealing the need for work like the kind The Door is Open is doing. Collecting warm articles is obviously not the entire solution, but it is a stepping

stone to help these individuals — who are often in poor physical or mental health — have a some sort of protection from the elements.

“It’s so easy when someone asks for money on the street to just say ‘I don’t have any money’... your eyes just glaze over that person,” said Arnold. “But if you are that person ... it is psychologically damaging.”

He said that, while volunteering at The Door is Open’s Sunday soup kitchen, the members of the organization encouraged him to sit down, converse, eat and — most importantly — listen to the stories of homeless individuals. The most important part of their work, he said, is to be compassionate and humanize those who are more often than not ignored on a daily basis.

Most UBC students do not face the trials of homelessness or even encounter homeless individuals on a daily basis. Arnold hopes that the Blanket Drive will encourage UBC students to help those in need. Arnold said his own perspective changed when he began doing charity work for homeless individuals.

“I was guilty of having this idea that if you were homeless or quite poor, it was of your own making,” he said. “When I was dealing with people who were homeless, I had this idea of being scared of them.”

While speaking with the homeless individuals mentioned above, two unconnected pairs of individuals approached the homeless individuals as well, handing out sandwiches. Clearly, many are taking the initiative to alleviate the suffering of those on the streets.

Starting November 29, UBC will be taking initiative too. U Editor’s note: Names of all homeless individuals have been changed to maintain privacy.

Canadian Food Politics (Literally) Elysse Bell Food columnist

The Ubyssey’s food columnist takes on the role of political PUNdit for some very serious post-election commentary.

With environmental crises looming and big agri-business impacting our everyday lives on an unprecedented scale, the politics of food is an important emerging field. Much has been written on concerns ranging from the national to the agricultural and the personal. But a literal analysis of national food politics is unprecedented — so dare I ask a more pressing question?

What if our country’s political leaders were reimagined as foodstuffs?

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Political PUNdits aside, Canada’s politicians make for interesting dinner conversation.

JUSTIN TRU-DOUGHNUT Now that the dust from the election has settled, we’ve got ourselves a new Canadian icon: Who better to symbolize our national affection for Tim Hortons than Justin Tru-Doughnut?

Depending on how his leadership pans out —and who you ask about it — we either have a very well-rounded prime minister or one with a gaping hole in the

middle. Either way, he’s been sprinkled with his fair share of criticism, but he’s certainly not old-fashioned. Has he glazed over gender inequality in his cabinet?

Doughnut even go there.

STEAMED-HEN HARPER Well Harper, you made your pot and now you’ve got to steam in it. Our former prime minister was too concerned with his place in the pecking order to take his opponents seriously, so the PC party had their feathers in a ruffle trying to portray Justin as a poultry adversary. They clearly put all their eggs in one basket with that strategy. Too bad now – they’re all out of cluck.

THOMAS MULCARROT Many NDP supporters were salad to see that the orange wave didn’t make much of a splash on the rest of Canada. Perhaps their platform wasn’t deeply rooted enough or the party is still too far underground and hasn’t quite sprouted yet. Although Thomas Mulcarrot perhaps seems like a more responsible choice than the sexy, sugar-coated Justin TruDoughnut, who wants a vegetable when they can have dessert?

ELIZABETH WHEY Elizabeth Whey is the key ingredient in Canada’s Green Smoothie Party, taking on the responsibility of bulking up our country’s eco efforts. If Canada wants to make environmental gains, it needs to seize the progreen protein to make sure its policies work out and supplement other priorities — especially because we’re so fresh-pressed for time on these issues. Maybe it’s best to juice as much as possible out of her example and blend some different ways of thinking.

VEAL DUCEPPE Let’s just say that Veal Duceppe is an acquired taste. Arguably, the Bloc Québécois’ goals doesn’t meat the needs of many Canadians, but French Canadians do need an outlet to express the fact that they’ve got beef with the government. They can’t be completely cowed into silence by the Anglophone majority.

Altogether, this group of powerful leaders can occasionally seem unsavoury to many Canadians, but it’s important not to stave your hunger for change so that they understand what our nation is craving. U

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Bill Situ Staff Writer

The cup drought is officially over.

After a challenging season, the UBC football team finished with a hard-fought 26-23 win over the University of Montréal Carabins to win their first Vanier Cup since 1997.

The T-Birds were first to get onto the scoreboard with two field goals by star kicker Quinn van Gylswyk on UBC’s first two possessions.

With Montréal in possession during the final minute of the first quarter, UBC linebacker Dylan Chapdelaine caught an interception at the Montréal 39yard line before tailback Marcus Davis caught a six-yard reception from Michael O’Connor early in the second for a touchdown.

Midway in the second, van Gylswyk added another field goal to increase the T-Birds’ lead to

16-0.

On Montréal’s next possession, they were forced to punt after gaining only five yards on three downs, but the Carabins quickly regained the possession on a fumble by O’Connor. Montréal then scored a touchdown on the ensuing drive to narrow the T-Birds’ lead to 16-7.

UBC made another error on its next possession when the team failed to fake a field goal after a third and goal situation. Montréal responded with a successful drive before adding a field goal in the final few seconds, making the score 16-10 by halftime.

Despite two misplays in the second quarter, the T-Birds saw an impressive performance from O’Connor, who racked up 290 passing yards in the first half, of which receiver Will Watson caught 120.

Early in the third, T-Birds star running back Brandon Deschamps

rushed the ball 44 yards to score a touchdown for UBC. The Carabins then responded with a field goal on their next possession.

Quinn van Gylswyk became the hero for the Thunderbirds as he scored in the final second of the game to give UBC the 26-23 win.

In the final minute of the third quarter, the Carabins made a successful drive near the T-Birds’ end zone before UBC forced a third and goal. Linebackers Terrell Davis and Mitch Barnett both nearly caught interceptions. Montréal then scored av field goal to make the score 23-16 by the end of the third.

The first seven minutes of the final quarter saw no scoring

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as strong defence by UBC and Montréal kept each other in check.

T-Bird defensive back Stavros Katsantonis forced and recovered a fumble early in the fourth quarter.

With the seven-point deficit, Montréal got a touchdown midway in the fourth quarter to equalize the score. Intensity then peaked as both teams anxiously fought to gain possession and come out on top.

The T-Birds did have a field goal attempt, but Montréal’s defence prevented the team from scoring.

The game changer came with less than 1:32 remaining on the clock, when UBC’s A. J. Blackwell caught an interception. On the ensuing possession, the T-Birds managed to drive to the Carabins’ 13-yard line.

After UBC failed a fake field goal attempt earlier, van Gylswyk became the hero for the Thunderbirds as he scored in the final second of the game to give UBC the 26-23 win. U

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ART //

Studio-hopping at the Eastside Culture Crawl

UBC kinesiology graduate Van Oyen is a pioneer in pyography.

Keagan Perlette Staff Writer

Over 400 artists opened their studio doors to the public for the 19th

annual Eastside Culture Crawl. The event lasts four days and is hosted in 78 different buildings centralized between Main Street, Victoria Drive, 1st Avenue and Waterfront Road.

PHOTO COURTESY JULIE VAN OYEN

“There’s a higher per capita of artists who both live and work in that area than in any other part of any Canadian city,” said Esther Rausenberg, one of the executive

directors of the Eastside Culture Crawl Society.

The Crawl allows people to studio-hop throughout the weekend, giving the public access to a variety of artists and their works and practices.

“The Crawl showcases emerging to professional artists working in painting, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, photography, mixed media, design, glass and furniture,” said Rausenberg. “The primary goal is to connect artists and the public. [We hope] to engage in a dialogue about the artmaking process.”

Participating for the first time in the Culture Crawl this year is kinesiology graduate Julie Van Oyen, who works under the name Burn & Yonder. Van Oyen’s studio is located in the massive art space MakerLabs, which is a facility where tools to create — table saws, laser cutters, sewing machines and 3D printers — are available to every artist who rents space in the building. Van Oyen works primarily in pyrography, also called wood burning, which is the process of making an image in wood with wood burning pens.

She began her pyrography practice when she participated in Hot Art Wet City’s 2014 Boobies and Wieners show.

“I remembered wood burning [from when I was little] and I was like, ‘Oh my god I’m going to get a wood burning kit!’ I basically came

up with the subject matter — very detailed anatomical illustrations — pretty much right away.”

Her choice of subject matter is directed by the medium. “I think things that are inspired by those old anatomical or botanical illustrations where they use pen and ink ... it’s a lot more satisfying to draw something like that drawn with hard lines,” she said. “It just seemed to make more sense to have natural subject matter on the wood or to go completely the other way and to have something weird on the wood like a pair of skeleton feet.”

“When I was little, if you asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would have said, ‘An artist,’” she recalled. “But I grew up in a small town and there wasn’t really any viable options for artists.”

Van Oyen decided to pursue her second love, biology, in the kinesiology program. However, when she graduated, she found herself disenchanted with her career options. “[I thought] why not try evening classes at Emily Carr?

And I just loved them ... taking classes meant that I was creating finished work.”

This is what Culture Crawl is for — giving the public the ability to have open discussions with artists and talk about the often non-linear journeys that brought them to where they are today. U

EQUALITY //

Students fighting “tokenistic” displays of diversity

Blain speaking at the solidarity display on Friday.

Miguel Santa Maria Senior Staff Writer

In recent years, incidents such as the Ferguson or Charleston shootings in the United States proved that racism is still a common problem in North America. Most recently at the University of Missouri, there has been controversy over several racist incidents that were largely neglected. In light of these recent developments, a handful of UBC students organized an event to speak out against this inequality.

“UBC Students of Colour In Solidarity With...” featured songs, poems, speeches and dances from various artists and speakers to celebrate racial diversity. Despite this description, the event is not as celebratory as it sounds.

The gathering itself was mainly inspired by prejudices on racial diversity, whether due to societal hegemonies or outright racial hate.

Although speeches and songs did celebrate identity, there were equal amounts of content that strongly spoke against discrimination. The penultimate feature of the event

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itself was a silent march down Main Mall where attendants held up signs in support of those who are victim of racially prejudice.

Cicely Blain, a fourth-year European studies student, is the main organizer of the event.

Although president of the UBC Intercultural Alliance, she organized it solely on her own accord with the help of her peers.

With other universities already doing similar events in light of the University of Missouri scandal, Blain felt that it was something that needed to happen here.

However, organizing the event was not just a matter of responding to recent racial controversies. For Blain, it is also a response to what she feels is apathy on behalf of the UBC administration regarding diversity in general.

“UBC definitely has an issue of visibility and that’s why I wanted to have an event like this,” Blain said. She also claims that although the university does promote diversity, it is in a highly tokenistic attitude. “They love [diversity] like that’s how we sell — that’s how we get the money from donors and that’s how we look good in comparison to other universities.

It’s not a real celebration of all the culture and communities that exist here.”

Blain attributes these problems largely to the white-centric hegemony not only on campus, but also across the globe.

“A lot of my books are not written from people of colour, most of my professors are white ... just those small things that add up to feeling that the university doesn’t acknowledge students of colour,” she said. “White people still have the most power even though there’s only one white person in the room … [they] have privilege in this society and are able to do stuff without question.”

Blain has endured numerous forms of racism in her home city of London prior to coming to UBC. Although she acknowledges that Vancouver is generally safer than most places in terms of cultural and racial diversity, she thinks it exemplifies the need for more racial visibility.

“Being in Vancouver, you feel removed from these things — especially for me. There’s not a very big black population,” she said. “We’re in a pretty safe environment here … I think it’s a responsibility to have that privilege to organize in a safe space [and] raise awareness on what other students are going through.”

This is not to say that Blain’s problems have stopped entirely.

According to her, a friend working in Vancouver quit her job due to racist remarks from her coworkers. Additionally, she regularly endures racial insults online, whether through email or social media posts. Like many others, she also sees that poor treatment and visibility for indigenous peoples is still a nationally prevalent problem.

Despite her strong views and the enduring ignorance of others, Blain insists that the event is not meant to be an aggressive reaction.

“I do acknowledge that some people may misunderstand this is as a protest or being an aggressive retaliation towards white people – it’s not. All that we’re trying to do is reclaim some space and have a moment where people of colour are celebrated and acknowledged,” said Blain.

“It’s supposed to be a celebration of these communities that don’t always get the support they need. Hopefully, by watching [their performances] and just being in that space of really talented people of colour, that will help UBC students acknowledge that everyone has something to offer regardless of their race.” U

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EDITOR JACK HAUEN

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015

SEXUAL ASSAULT //

UBC has abandoned women ALEXIS WOLFE Letter

Since it operates as a business, it is entirely understandable why the university would choose to silence survivors of sexual assault in the interest of preserving their brand, securing profit and attracting the support of stakeholders. Of course, it is not as though the UBC administration directly benefits from rape culture on campus or that individual persons pursue this process with the intention of re-victimizing survivors of sexual assault. But instead, a neoliberal sentiment that one must protect oneself (read: their job), thereby protects the institution.

Consistent failures to adequately address rape culture on campus on behalf of the university reveal a system that is working almost seamlessly to ensure that the flow of capital is not disrupted and the university’s reputation remain unmarked. Only after public shaming does the university take “action.”

But is it not public embarrassment that deters UBC from publicly naming rape culture, publishing statistics or simply acknowledging that rape happens on campus. As The New York Times reported that one in four women will experience sexual assault during their time at university. Isn’t it the risk that stakeholders, prospective students and other sources of profit may reconsider their relationship

to UBC if they knew that rape happens here? It is apparent that the six figure incomes of faculty and administration are considered more important than the safety of women on campus and the right of survivors to receive justice.

In April 2015, several women from the UBC Women’s Centre organized a sit-in demonstration in then-President Arvind Gupta’s office, demanding that the university acknowledge that rape happens here. Providing a list of demands to the university, we were met with consideration — the response appeared to be sympathetic.

Despite a history of complicity in the silencing of sexual assault on campus, we were optimistic.

I can safely say, after this process of working with UBC administration, addressing sexual assault on campus is not of high priority to them. It may appear so with working groups, dozens of meetings and emoji consent campaigns, but there is very little action. In our experience working with UBC, there was significant concern and legitimate sentiment to do what was necessary to support survivors from each of the participants. But ultimately, a clear plan of action was never developed. Working meetings as well as drawing individuals from various perspectives and levels of expertise failed to address the completely inadequate response that continues to characterize UBC’s relationship to rape culture. Talk about the reduction of bushes and greenery or the implementation of

further lighting on Main Mall filled the conversation, leaving very little time to address the development of a sexual assault policy that expels perpetrators and supports survivors.

Nevertheless, these meetings were successful in propagating an image of concern and tending to the egos of those dedicating their morning to the discussion.

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It is quite obvious that there is no acceptable way to address rape culture on campus that both benefits women and protects the institution.”

It is quite obvious that there is no acceptable way to address rape culture on campus that both benefits women and protects the institution.

As discussions remained shallow and often explanatory, UBC was more inclined to toss money our way. As one of our demands, we requested a budget to begin a peer-led support groups for women on campus, which was — unsurprisingly — the only demand addressed directly. UBC, in the style of most Western capitalist institutions, threw money (crumbs) at the problem and, as I suspect,

hoped it would disappear — or maybe that we would graduate and move on.

The lack of institutional memory for students coming in and out of the system ensures that persistent and unmoving pressure from students be diffused. Those with institutional memory – faculty and staff — are often collaborators in service to the institution. Those faculty and staff who see the injustice and speak out against sexual assault on campus receive immense pressure to also stay silent.

Within these confines of possibilities available for both students and faculty, an adequate sexual assault policy will never be developed.

In doing so, the university names an epidemic and risks both their reputation and profit.

It is imperative that students demand a sexual assault policy.

There can be no justice for women when there is a system designed to confuse and deter them from reporting and subsequently not believing them when a report is made. The university’s system of abandonment requires that students remain distrustful, disillusioned, distracted and apolitical — thus rendered ineffective and nonthreatening to the university. Survivors are doubly victimized, first by the perpetrator of sexual violence and secondly by the bureaucratic system that consciously fails them. U Alexis Wolfe is a third-year sociology major.

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Last words: UBC is addicted to breaking its own rules ubyssey staff Last Words

UBC plans to build private housing on academic land, and they’ve justified the decision with the rhetoric of “campus as a living lab.”

The idea of campus as a living lab is nothing new, but UBC is saying that if they do some studies in a residential building, it magically doesn’t count as housing anymore.

We’ve seen this situation time and time again: UBC decides they want to do something. People don’t like it or they realize it’s against the rules. They reinterpret the rules or make new ones and do it anyway.

The university is the owner and developer of land on campus and will continue to do whatever they want with it, barring major governance reforms. U

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Ask Natalie: Long-distance heartache

Natalie morris Advice

“Dear Natalie, I have been missing this person ever since last seeing him over half a year ago. Unfortunately, we may never even get a chance to meet up again before the end of the year.

He used to be a very intimidating person but it seems like there has been a 180-degree change in his personality the last time we talked with each other. I’m not sure if he’s hinting at anything. What should I do to get myself thinking logically again?

That’s the problem with being human and having feelings — you can’t just turn them off when you feel like it. Being human isn’t logical.

I wonder, though, if this relationship is worth it. You haven’t seen this guy in over six months and you’re still wondering about feelings and hoping for the possibility of a romance. Do you talk to him regularly? Do you get something out of the relationship you have now, other than heartache?

Long distance friendships and romances can work, but they definitely take work. Are you sure both of you are committed to that?

But even if your friend is down for a friendship, it doesn’t mean he’s looking for a relationship. It’s hard to know what he’s feeling, especially with what you’ve told me.

But if he knows your feelings and is purposely dangling the possibility of a relationship over your head, that’s just rude.

As for his personality change, I can’t know if it means anything. It could be him warming up to you as a friend, him growing as a person or he could have feelings for you.

You’ll never know until you talk to him. Hopefully that will help you straighten out your own feelings.

If you need an answer to feel better, don’t feel bad asking for one.

In a lot of cases, knowing is better than not knowing.

If you don’t want to question this guy, that’s your choice, but you can’t expect to just be able to force yourself to feel a certain way — especially right away. You can try, but much like trying to be friends after a break up, you generally need a break from that person in order to starting “feeling logical” again. U Need advice? Contact Natalie anonymously at asknatalie@ubyssey. ca and have your questions answered in an upcoming issue.

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UBC swimming captures Canada West titles again Matt Langmuir and Tamara Rutherford Staff Writers

UBC took the last day of the Canada West Swimming Championship at the UBC Aquatic Centre by storm. The final heats took place Sunday night and saw the T-Birds rack up points that led to a meet victory for both men’s and women’s teams.

The competition took place over three days and featured teams from eight different universities. As the hosts and defending champions, expectations were high for the Thunderbirds to thrive in the competition.

After finishing Friday in third place, trailing the top spot by 55 points, UBC dominated on Saturday, winning 7 of 11 individual finals as they even swept the podium on a few occasions. In addition, the ’Birds won both the men’s and women’s relay races.

“We have a pretty small team this year,” said UBC head coach Steve Price. “The fact that our team is doing so well on the quality side of the meet — picking up wins and dominating the relays — is a really a good sign.”

Pleased with his team’s performance, Price claimed he was particularly impressed with a couple of swimmers on the team.

“I thought Erin Stamp did a great job winning that 100m breaststroke race and breaking the Canada West record,” said Price. “Keegan Zanatta’s been a great swimmer as well. He’s the team captain and he stepped up, won the 200m freestyle, anchored the relay and won that so he’s doing a great job as well.”

Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson was the most successful Thunderbird of the night, winning the 400m individual medley, 200m backstroke and 200m freestyle. Ranked as

UBC swimming continues its dominance in Canada West with wins in both the men’s and women’s meets.

one of the top swimmers in the competition, SeltenreichHodgson wasn’t surprised she was able to win all three of her finals appearances.

“I knew going in that I was ranked up with the capability of getting first in all of [my races], but obviously not a guarantee or anything,” said SeltenreichHodgson. “I had to post some pretty good times for me to be able to accomplish that. I honestly just had to race my heart out and I just happened to be able to out-touch people in a couple races.”

Going into Sunday, the Thunderbirds trailed the University of Calgary for the lead by just 5.5 points.

Sunday saw the T-Birds step

up the swimming a notch and capture the men’s and women’s meet.

Second-year Jacomie Strydom won the “A” final of the women’s 200m butterfly. UBC’s Mia Bottrill also made it to the podium by placing third and the men took second through fifth in their event.

In the 100m freestyle, the women placed first and second with Rebecca Terejiko and Maia Brundage, respectively. The same was true for the men when fourthyear Keegan Zanatta placed first and Carson Olafson placed second.

Erin Stamp, Erika SeltenreichHodgson and Stefanie Serka swept the women’s 200m individual medley this year at CanWest. Thirdyear Jonathan Brown placed first for UBC’s men’s time.

Mckenzie Summers and Katherine Stamp took second and third on the podium for the backstroke, while Darian Fry beat out the centre lane racers and placed first for UBC in the “B” final for the men. Stamp came back for second place in the women’s 200m breaststroke and Tera Van Beilen placed first.

Brundage won the women’s 400m freestyle with a seven second lead over Calgary. Zanatta won the men’s event and Brown placed third.

The women’s 400m medley relay was dominated by UBC. Summers, Stamp, Strydom and Terejko each led in their individual strokes and landed the team in first place by more than four seconds. The men’s relay

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team placed third with Karl Wolk, Ryder McGinnis, Justin Chan and Marshal Parker.

Varsity athletes from across UBC sports came out to support the swim team and were particularly proud of Zanatta in the freestyle and women’s relay. The Sunday final heats yielded improvements from the preliminary times and the T-Birds were consistently placing on the podium. The highest scoring athletes at the meet were Seltenreich-Hodgson and Zanatta. The Canada West trophies ultimately went home with UBC this season, making this the third consecutive Canada West title for the men’s team.

UBC will head to Quebec City for the CIS championships at the end of February. U

VARSITY //

Cross country shines at NAIA National Championships

The cross country team warms up during a preseason warm-up session.

Koby Michaels Sports and Rec Editor

The football team might be making all the headlines this

week, but they aren’t the only UBC team competing at the national level. The Thunderbirds’ cross country team competed at the NAIA National

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Championships November 21 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The women’s team, three time defending champions, finished second this year. The men earned

their best ever finish in sixth, one point ahead of Lewis-Clark State College — a perennial rival.

The team fought early injuries and a slow start to the season.

Under new head coach Laurier Primeau and his assistant coaches Chris Johnson and Norm Tinkham, the team has had a change in training techniques.

Marek Jedrzejek had previously coached the team for 25 years before retiring after last season and handing responsibilities off to Primeau.

“We had a whole renovation, if you will, of the coaching structure [with] a new head coach and a bunch of new assistant coaches.

The big change for us was the replacement of Marek Jedrzejek,” explained John Gay, a second-year Arts student.

On the women’s side, Natalia Hawthorn finished first for the ’Birds and ninth in the race. She was followed by two athletes in their last year, Devan Wiebe and Kirsten Lee. Wiebe finished 18th

and Lee finished 24th. Nicola Symonds, Madelyn Brunt, Nicole Lacis and Sandra Kilmartin also competed at the event.

Jesse Hooton finished 10th at the race and was the first T-Bird across the line. He was followed by second year Jeff Groh, who debuted at nationals this year and finished 40th. Bilal Shamsi, John Gay, Devin Rajala, Max Trummer and Lukas Jarron also competed at the race.

“Another big performance came from a senior on our team, Bilal Shamsi … it was his last cross country race as a T-Bird and he came in really clutch for us. Kicking down a runner from Lewis-Clark … he was able to take him down just at the finish line which ended up being huge. We ended up beating Lewis-Clark by one point,” said Gay. The ’Birds return to running as the track and field season starts January 17 in Seattle, Washington at the University of Washington Indoor Preview. U

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